Wednesday, November 6, 2024

what could have been april 8, 2014

 

the more I revisit the poem from back then the more I think she connected the one-eyed Jack poem she posted about the same time she sent me the poem about needing me

she says in one poem not to try to save her while in the other poem she clearly wanted to be saved or for me to help her save herself

now all this time later,  water gone under that bridge and she still struggles and finds herself alone

 I keep going back wishing I had listened more closely to what she said, to understand what it is she saw in my eyes after I had abandoned my patch, the stirring of something inside both of us, something that could have gone somewhere, done something, made both of us happy,  we helping to save each other

 now I stand on the bridge and watch the water long gone except as a memory of what might have been, could have been, but won't ever be



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